Try being a muppet in the Peak District with no hill walking training, no map, no GPS app and a broken ankle - you can go to the website and read out the words which are easier to transcribe than a bunch of digits. But for those who know that 2 to 3 people die a year in the High Peak due to having no hill walking skills and have at the very least a mapping app, it’s still easier to read out three words than a string of digits when you are scoring pain level 42. The call handers know what W3W’s is, so it is sort of useful for location. But let’s leave that there.
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